That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing. —Simone de Beauvoir
“That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.”

Simone de Beauvoir French writer, philosopher

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